Cessna R172K
N172SP is a Cessna R172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Luke Airlines LLC, an LLC in Southgate, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172K · all R172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- R172-2842
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 76 mph
- Transponder code
- A12239 (octal 50221071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 10, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00652330
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Luke Airlines LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13422 Fort St
Southgate, MI 48195-1138
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N172SP, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Luke Airlines LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 31, 2002, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-2842 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172SP according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N172SP: Accident on September 1, 2023 at Plover, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R172K · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate fuel management which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data